SUNDAY SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT'S SHOCKING CONDUCT.

NZ Truth, Issue 352, 23 March 1912, Page 8

SUNDAY SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT'S SHOCKING CONDUCT.

His Blasphemy m the Box. j -y . Once more I am unfortunately cou> pelled to draw attention to the disgraceful conduct of a shining light m the Methodist Church, who, m;. common with other wowsers who have been brought into the meshes . of "tlie law recently, made his conduct worse by his hypocritical whines about his "good work," when brought before the law. :. The latost shuffling saint who used religion as a cloak to cover his filthy immorality Was one J Gseph (Chapman, a smugface'd humbug of fifty-nine, who was charged at Salford with a serious ofience against a young girl. It was further alleged that - ! THE' BEASTLY SCOUNDREL j had tampered with numerous younggirls m similar fashion to the offence - of which he was convicted. The police had rccoivecl many pomplaints^ about the man, so they disguised themselves and waited . They saw Chapman meet, a twelve-year-old girl, give her money to buy lollies, ■and then take her into a "picture palace." While there, undercover oi the \darkness, he indecently" assaulted the girl m the grossest way. j "When on trial, Chapman elected to plead. guilty, and then the blasphemous scoundrel, with crocodile tears m hik eyes, made an appeal for mercy, so that, he might T "resume his good work for the Lord." It's a solemn fact. ""Wowsers, we know, are thred shades thicker than Gallus m the A hide,^ have ,the impudence of Satan ! and the T effrontery of a pantomime ; "principal boy?" but v v " OHAiPMAN'S- GALL exceeds? all previous wowser records. ' "I -have been a good man,"' he whin- | ed, "and "I' -will • vouch to- my Maker | that' for'everjjiore I will be a re- I spectable citizen, and will do work : for the, Master if Lain spared to do ; SO." . : " j —The - court -~ sent - this -loathsome ' specimen of; the crawling , wowser . brood to gaol for twelve months. He should have got tweite years and. a flogging; for he had been tampering with girls for the last eighteen months. Eight ' other girls deposed that they -had- been interfered with, j The offences' were committed m., thei house- where- he^lcKlged,- at- the- park, i "picture palaces," and. even ■ m the; church, oh Sundays during Divine ] service ! And this dirty scoundrel ' is— or " was till his-' arrest — Sunday school superintendent' of the Primi- . tive Methodist Chapel, - '•• Trafford- j street;, where the wowsering brethrenand.sisters doubtless regret that -he ; was' found out, for, according to thc j wowser standard od: morality, you j are "good" till you are discovered. '